
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain is a 2007 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers the period of British history from the end of the Second World War onwards. The series is highly praised and resulted in a follow up series covering the period 1900 to 1945 called Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain. A book released by Marr at accompanying the series and bearing the same name also details this period of history.
Air Date: 2007-05-22
Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious but badly beaten up and nearly bankrupt. With a...
Air Date: 2007-05-29
The second programme in the series explodes the popular image of the 1950s as a golden age of order and prosperity, a...
Air Date: 2007-06-05
Andrew Marr examines the age of Harold Wilson's classless society; a country excited by new technology, modern archit...
Air Date: 2007-06-12
Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nati...
Air Date: 2007-06-19
In the final part of Andrew Marr's epic national saga, Britain enters the uncharted waters of the post-Thatcher era. ...